The business centers design is comprised of five components, the most distinctive of which is an office/hotel tower that symbolizes the opening of Chinas doors to South Korea. The other components consist of a department store, retail galleria, apartment tower, and pedestrian plaza.
The soaring 92-story, metal and glass tower provides for office space within the first 61 levels, a public observation deck on the 62nd level, and hotel rooms and services contained in the levels above. The structure rises upward in a straightforward progression marking the functions within, i.e., square-shaped until it reaches the observation level where the plan is reduced in size and rotated 45 degrees with the corners sloped inward to form large glass triangles. This rotation is repeated at the 92nd level where the tower steps in to form four large diamond shapes that encircle a 135 feet (41 m) spire.
At the base of the tower are a nine-story department store with large showcase windows that encircle the building at street level, and a seven-level retail galleria with glass-clad walls to further engage pedestrians and animate the street scene. The 36-story, cylindrical apartment component complements the square and triangular shapes that dominate the dramatic tower and department store, and echoes the form of the retail galleria roof.
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